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Universal acclaim- based on 64 Ratings

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 31
  3. Negative: 0 out of 31
  1. It's a quietly powerful work, pulsing with gentle humor and a gripping sense of imminent calamity and dread.
  2. Nobody Knows, by the often excellent Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, is one of those special movies that can give us a new way of seeing.
  3. The film, winsome and tragic at once and finely attuned to the rhythms of childhood, always seems quite close to real life.
  4. Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    80
    Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda's most accessible film to date is also his most wrenching.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 39
  2. Negative: 2 out of 39
  1. JakeB.
    10
    Amazing film, I'm pressed for a better way to describe it, but I'm at a loss for words. Absolutely amazing.
  2. Undeniably, one of the best Japanese films I've ever seen in years. The story was so unique that it expressed an extraordinary unwelcoming senses of sympathy along with anger. Despite of that, the movie also possessed a sense of warmth that can make you fall into tears before you even realized. Expand
  3. Potechi
    6
    The movie was good but could've used some serious cutting. The film also lost it's realism near the end for me because of the children's unnatural, unwavering behaviour. It's pushing it already to think that the 3 siblings would act in this certain manner but adding a juniorhigh/highschool outsider to the bunch makes it the more unbelievable. Expand
  4. DonaldW.
    2
    One word can describe this movie: boring. It could also apply to the other Koreeda movies I have seen. If another word is desired, try "pointless." If Koreeda is trying to tell us that young children should not be abandoned by their parents that isa point which certainly should not take two hours and twenty minutes to make as nothing could be more obvious. Expand

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